Re: Keep trace of ping request

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

Thank you to all the users that replied.
I will try the solutions proposed, but according to your answers it seems that 
there is no "embedded" way in the system to log ping requests (unlike a user's 
login, for example, which is easily logged into a file). Is it so?

Rocky


> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 6:30 PM
> From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%astron.com@localhost>
> To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: Keep trace of ping request
>
> In article <20140825142105.GA29102%manul.langhans.com.pl@localhost>,
> herbert langhans  <w3%langhans.com.pl@localhost> wrote:
> >    From: Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost> [140825 14:01]
> >    Hello!
> >    I am sorry if my question looks trivial, but is there any way to
> >keep trace of ping requests in NetBSD?
> >    No file in my /var/log directory has been modified after a ping
> >request sended from another host. Can I add some settings in a
> >configuration file in order to log these events? And (if yes) what is
> >the log file to be considered?
> >    Thank you anyway
> >    Rocky
> >
> >I am not sure you look for such an advanced solution. But with snort (an
> >intruder dedection program) you can log such events easily.
> 
> or go lo-tech and use tcpdump. But be careful not to put the interface
> in promiscuous mode because performance will suffer.
> 
> christos
> 
>